They stayed quiet about changes from the closed beta tests for a while. I guess they were saving it as a big surprise right before Open Beta and release to excite pre-orders.

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Not exactly a fantastic marketting strategy, but they are definitely flooding most MMO News sites, so it seems to be working well enough. Massively has posted like 4-5 new posts about TERA a day, up from like 0.5-1. A lot of people are now talking about it.

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I submitted a support ticket for a bug yesterday, and got a response that they would have it fixed for launch after 13 minutes. These guys seem on top of it, and seem like they really listen to their players.

I submitted a support ticket for a bug yesterday, and got a response that they would have it fixed for launch after 13 minutes. These guys seem on top of it, and seem like they really listen to their players.

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That's something I really appreciate in MMO's. I love Rift for that reason. It might not be the best game, but Trion tries their hardest to be the best company, and makes sure you don't feel alienated. With SW:TOR, BioWare kind of just ignored the community, and responded exclusively to arbitrary forum topics while keeping completely silent on major issues. I think that's the main thing people should copy from Blizzard\WoW--stay in touch with your userbase, and always have a presence.

I'm thinking by launch this game will be a lot better than it is even now. Pretty excited.

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I'm maxed at level 32, and am currently farming gold gear from the SM instance, as well as stacking repeatable quests for the 38 level cap Head Start. Illuminus is starting off as a force to be reckoned with.

I also spent about 28/36 hours since the Open Beta started powerleveling. Time for me to take it easy.

So I've pre-ordered the collector's edition, I am pretty impressed so far with the game seems like the combat can go pretty deep as opposed to lock on targeting and waiting for casts. I am also digging being able to actually dodge attacks other than that the visuals are awesome animation and graphics wise. The character styles still have that anime vibe which isn't very original but its to be expected since it's following suite to Lineage and Aion but despite that some of the races look uniquely awesome.